Starship. She fixed the Savage Chicken, remember?
edited 28th Oct '10 9:17:08 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I was thinking more discipline, but whatever. I'd throw some basic programing into a starship engineering curriculum myself.
Fight smart, not fair.She definitely knows programming, but whether that makes her qualified to dissect GITD in the short time available is an unknown, not to mention unlikely, or the idea would have already occurred to her.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Florance is a gravitational engineer
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Obviously, she knows a lot about the nuts and bolts of a starship, beyond the DAVE drive.
edited 28th Oct '10 11:56:21 AM by LarryD
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George S. PattonKoranda has tried to kill her twice if I'm not mistaken — he's undergone a bit of art evolution since the first time, when the attempt was by allowing her to die of drowning by neglect.
Either way, I think robots could live peacefully alongside human beings on that planet, including the AI equipped ones... but only if those that are in more dangerous chassis are transplanted to ones that match human norms more directly. Sawtooth especially worries me, as he's shown interest in using his superior tonnage and explosive loadouts as threats in the past (albeit not to humans, but only because of the safeguards in place).
Bowman's architecture should never have been mapped from biology to AI in the first place, but they've made their bed already.
Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.She knows, courtesy of Sam, that he tried to have her put back on ice, as it were.
She doesn't know about the abandonment in the hurricane (which wasn't really a murder attempt, as some paint it, just Kornada operating under an extreme myopia that doesn't see anything not related to corporate middle management), but Kornada doesn't even remember seeing her that time, so I don't think it'll be an issue for either one.
Matt II, there's also the unseen routing a river through a supervisor's house because said supervisor insulted him.
edited 28th Oct '10 4:30:59 PM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpDon't be so sure that the comic is marching slowly but surely towards a sappy cliche "robots=humans" 100% desegregated society. Florence is at the nexus of the coming social change and which way she pushes is going to have a big effect. She may side with the robots saving themselves from the junkyard rather than those trying to collect, but her immediate reaction to learning that robots were turning sapient was to go "Oh shit" and try to warn Ecosystems Unlimited. Because she knows. Earth isn't in the process of being terraformed and has been self-sustaining since before humans existed. Jean isn't. Jean can't survive without a huge workforce of robots diligently doing their jobs. The only way to deal with a drop in productivity would be to churn out even more robots—who would eventually become unnecessary once terraforming was finished—but Jean doesn't actually have the materials to do that—the robot factories had to be imported whole, and all but one (or was it two?) were totally wrecked.
And that's just the reasons it probably can't happen. Rather less the human reactions, and the fact that anybody on the robots' side would have to be out of their goddamn minds to make any overt moves in this direction for fear that the humans would try to crush the robot revolution through drastic measures.
Plus, you know, even though he's made some slippage I think the author is careful enough not to let social change on that scale happen within the course of a few weeks, and at the pace this story moves, I'll be dead by the time they progress a year in-comic.
It's still aggressive action, regardless of the intended target.
And, in this case, the "intended target" ultimately was the supervisor. I'm pretty sure Sawtooth held no particular animosity towards the house itself.
You know, I think that guy's last word bubble could've been put to better use than for the sake of dropping an anvil on the reader's head...
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Not that Mark has exactly been immune to that sort of thing in the past, granted.
edited 1st Nov '10 2:20:29 PM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpWell, today's comic really describes what they call a "burning kiss."
Edit: Link to the day's comic not working. No idea what I did wrong.
edited 3rd Nov '10 8:56:13 AM by DHBirr
I'm guessing he has it set to only make a page for the image after the update, before that it just sits on the front page.
Fight smart, not fair.Usually I just link to the .png image.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yeah, the current page is always "http://freefall.purrsia.com/
". Unlike DMFA, there's no permanent version of the current page, a strip doesn't get a permanent page until after a successor page is up.
Keychain Of Creation has the same issue. Either it's laziness on the part of the creators or it's a deliberate attempt to get people to link to the main page where the ad revenue (if any) comes from. Scratch that; it's always laziness.

Unlikely. She's an engineer, not an AI programmer. Anyway, there's a hard deadline approaching that doesn't offer nearly enough time for that kind of gambit. It seems like her approach is much more likely to be a direct appeal to an EU employee.
I just had a preemptive Oh, Crap!. She's set up an alarm to notify her when an EU employee is near. She also doesn't remember everything that happened to her, especially what Kornada tried to do. What if the next EU employee she runs into is Kornada?
edited 28th Oct '10 8:53:04 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"